Summary: Severus Snape is hit by a stray spell, which has unanticipated and undesirable consequences. When he begins to feel some side-effects from the spell, Severus seeks the help of a colleague. A response to the Potter Place Winter Prompt Challenge #22. A third place winner in the Potter Place Challenge, and a featured story at SH Occlumency for November 2007. Not DH-compliant. Completely disregards DH.

Please note ratings and warnings in individual chapters. MA content in several chapters.

Summary: The plushie’s glare was a remarkable copy of his own. He’d have thought it impossible to infuse such annoyance into a stuffed doll, but the evidence sat uncomfortably in his hands. Prodding the doll, he snarled as several question sprang to mind: Who created the doll (though the crossed WWW on the doll’s tag answered the who, more or less, just not which of the Weasley brothers he should kill), and why create a plush likeness of himself? But, really, the main question that echoed over and over in his mind was: Why was the doll anatomically correct, and why had he found a copy of the plushie on Hermione’s workbench?

Summary: It's been eight years since Voldemort's fall, and Snape just wants to be left alone in his misery at Azkaban, but his new legal counsel has made it her mission to get him out of there. She will stop at nothing to see him restored to Wizarding society. Will Hermione manage? Or are the odds stacked against them both?